Analysis Of Trouble Follows By Monica Mckayhan

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In Trouble Follows, by Monica McKayhan, Indigo has everything she wants: a spot on the dance team, a hot boyfriend by the name of Marcus, and her best friend Jade is moving back to Atlanta. Jade is suddenly getting too cozy with her History teacher. Instead of playing basketball, Marcus is sitting in a courthouse, forced to prove his innocence for something he didn’t do. Indigo is feeling the pressure - from the dance team, her friends, and family. It’s time to show everyone and herself that she is not weak. Jade, the protagonist of Trouble Follows, by Monica McKayhan, and I are not at all similar. We have different views of the world, are viewed by the world distinctive ways and I would respond in a different way to the central conflict …show more content…
Like she is out here doing things she shouldn’t do. Even though people do not know her they look at her and judge her because of how she is built. She is built like a grown woman, but she is only 17. While she was in church few older women saw her and said that she was overdeveloped for her age. They never took into consideration that she could just be a normal teenager or nothing. They just went right into talking about her. (“These girls nowadays are just as fast as they wanna be”. She will be pregnant before she graduate high school”.) (page 42) That is not fair for her. She has no control on how she is built, but people do not care they still talk about her and look at her wrong because of …show more content…
Her life was not going the way that she wanted. Her parents got divorced, she was forced to move to New Jersey with her mother, and only see her dad once a year. She really did not understand her point in being in this world once she moved back to Atlanta with her father. She was fine until one of her teachers tried to take her out on a date. She did not have anyone to run to for help. She felt like her parents did not want her because when she moved in with her dad, he was always out with his girlfriend, and her mother had thrown her out of the house. She had no one, she was in this world all alone. She viewed the world as a cruel heartless places that she did not want to be

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